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In an interview on Medium, Department of Nuclear Engineering M.Eng. alumnus Kaleb Hatfield discusses the future of fusion energy, nuclear energy as clean energy, and his work as a Nuclear Engineering at Tri Alpha Energy.

The Breakthrough Institute has selected Department of Nuclear Engineering professor Rachel Slaybaugh to be a 2017 Senior Fellow. The Breakthrough Institute is a research institute aiming to bring new ideas to the conversations about energy and the environment as a way to increase the standard of living globally.

12/20/16 - Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), a new entrepreneurial start-up hub embedded at Argonna National Laboratory has announced their first cohort of entrepreneurs. CRI aims to provide a supportive and collaborative environment for companies that are innovating sustainable energy and manufacturing.

Tuesday, November 29, 2017 - The students of Professor Peter Hosemann's NE120 Materials Course took a field trip today to Pacific Steel Casting. This local steel casting company, established in 1934, specializes in sand casting. The workers showed the students the process from computer modeling engineering components to the final product. The students witnessed the pouring of stainless steel into molds as well as the quality control, mold fabrication and post-casting heat treatment, as well as cleaning processes.